Most significant achievements as an artist.

1. Surviving as an artist for nearly 3 decades.
   
   
2. Performing quality music to the public many thousands of times in gigs and concerts with styles ranging from Baroque to Rock, both solo and in ensemble.
   
   
3. Recording with the late jazz guitar legend Ike Isaacs.
   
   
4. Developing a technique and performance style which blends concepts from classical composition and orchestration, classical guitar, jazz guitar and rock guitar.
   
   
5. Releasing "Late Night Lovers" CD which demonstrates applications of these concepts to famous Jazz Standards in a programmatic format.
   
   
6. Writing a ten hour chamber guitar performance library based on standard works in the String Quartet repertoire. This library of arrangements (not published) forms the basis of my professional classical chamber music performances.
   
   
7. Arranging for the Guitar and performing key works in the Violin repertoire, including concertos by Bach and Vivaldi. These efforts have given me many insights into the solution of common musical problems on a stringed instrument.
   
   
8. More completely realising guitar works by Antonio Lauro. By orchestrating the pieces and then transferring that orchestration back to the guitar were revealed aspects of phrasing, voicings, placement of phrases on the instrument and voice leading that had been omitted from the original scores and also rather obscured over the years by adherence to certain editions and interpretations.
   
   
9. Orchestrating Paganini's Caprice Opus 1 No. 24. This also included integration of leitmotifs derived from Paganini's material and also composition of original additional material.
   
   
10. Arranging that orchestration version for solo guitar. Thereby demonstrating the orchestral source of guitar techniques.
    
    
11. Designing costumes and story for a ballet based on the Paganini. Serving as an illustration of the programmatic content that is present in Paganini's music.
    
    
12. Writing and publishing the book "Guitar Playing and How it Works", 3rd edn. 2004. This book represents the most complete and wholistic presentation of solutions to the fundamental problems of guitar technique to date. It also applies the principles of the Alexander Technique to the instrument. Samples and testimonials here - www.thewholeguitarist.com/2nd-edn/about.htm
    
    
13. Applying principles of the Alexander Technique to the Guitar, as is described in the previous tome. REVIEW for AUSTAT - Alexander Teachers - http://www.thewholeguitarist.com/2nd-edn/review_aust_001.htm
    
    
14. Applying principles of Wing Chun and White Crane martial arts to the guitar. The generation of speed with rotary movements I learned in the wrist movements of Wing Chun and the hip movements of White Crane. These disciplines also taught me how difficult it is to evaluate technique with the eye alone. Often what looks simple and logical is not necessarily the quickest or most efficient.
    
    
15. Teaching these principles to people of all ages and aptitudes.
    
    
16. Writing over 400 pages of guitar pedagogic material which is available free at www.thewholeguitarist.com. It explains the basic elements of music - Rhythm - Technique - Melody - Harmony - Repertoire - Improvisation - Performance - and how they can be realised on the guitar with a wholistic approach to the enterprise.
    
    
17. Researching, writing and curating the Flight Simulation Museum. This Museum, regarded as the leading world authority on the subject, explores the connections between the artistic impulses in music, and those impulses that drive people to escape the clutches of gravity via flight and spaceflight. . The Alexander Technique helps explain some of the physical connections between sensation and movement. At www.migman.com there are over 7,000 pages I have written about the flight simulation genre and related passions and fields of endeavour.